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The multifarious mr banks : from botany bay to kew, the natural historian who shaped the world / Toby Musgrave. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: available online remote; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]Copyright date: 2020
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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The sakura obsession : the incredible story of the plant hunter who saved Japan's cherry blossoms / Naoko Abe. by
Edition: First United States edition.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Language: English Original language: Japanese Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019Copyright date: ©2019
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK31.I54 A2313 2019.
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In the footsteps of Joseph Dalton Hooker : a Sikkim adventure / Seamus O'Brien. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Richmond : Kew Publishing, 2018Copyright date: ©2018
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK31.H6 O3 2018.
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The notorious Sir John Hill : the man destroyed by ambition in the era of celebrity / George Rousseau. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Bethlehem, [Pa.] : Lanham, Md. : Lehigh University Press ; Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, 2012
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: CT788.H54 R68 2012.
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A Rum affair : a true story of botanical fraud / Karl Sabbagh. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK31 .H39 S23 2000.
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Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker : traveller & plant collector. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Woodbridge : Antique Collectors' Club with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 1999
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB63 .H783 D464.
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George Bentham [electronic resource] : autobiography, 1800-1834 / edited by Marion Filipiuk. by Series: Canadian electronic library. Books collection.
Material type: Text Text; Format: electronic available online remote; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Toronto [Ont.] ; Buffalo [N.Y.] : University of Toronto Press, c1997
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists : including plant collectors, flower painters, and garden designers / Ray Desmond ; with the assistance of Christine Ellwood. by
Edition: Rev. and completely updated ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: London ; Bristol, PA : London : Taylor & Francis ; Natural History Museum, 1994
Other title:
  • Dictionary of British & Irish botanists and horticulturists
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB61 .D464 1994.
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John Lightfoot, his work and travels : with a biographical introduction and a catalogue of the Lightfoot Herbarium / by Jean K. Bowden. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Kew : Pittsburgh : Bentham-Moxon Trust, Royal Botanic Gardens ; Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University, 1989
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Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK31.L54 B68 1989.
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The letters and papers of Sir John Hill, 1714-1775 / edited with commentary by G.S. Rousseau. by Series: AMS studies in the eighteenth century ; no. 6.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York, N.Y. : AMS Press, ©1982
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: CT788.H54 A34 1982.
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British gardeners : a biographical dictionary / Miles Hadfield, Robert Harling, Leonie Highton. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: London : Zwemmer : Condé Nast, 1980
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB61 .B862.
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